Lighttpd

There a typo in the description:
http://myserver/tld/~nobody/etc/passwd
should be:
http://myserver.tld/~nobody/etc/passwd

-- julien.cayzac

I think the main problem here is that mod_userdir is alway enabled; you can disable it with

userdir.include-user = ( "" )

mod_userdir will still redirect "/~something" to "/~something/" (empty user is not allowed by mod_userdir in any case, so /~/ is not affected by the include-user "").

The next problem are users with "/" as homedir - i don't know why, but on a debian system there is no user with "/" as homedir; nobody has "/nonexistent".

Of course, your idea would fix most things, but i just search for a "cleaner" solution ;-)

you should also edit userdir.txt to reflect that change, it still mentions "." as the default value for path.

-- rbu

Yes, sry forgot that; so the doc is missing in 1.4.19, but now in svn r2130.